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THQ: A Wall-E Play	It’s opening day for Wall-E, the new Disney (DIS)/Pixar movie. And it’s getting raves. Rotten Tomatoes, the movie review tracking site, says Wall-E is one of the best-reviewed films to open so far in 2008, and also “one of the best-reviewed films in Pixar’s history.” One way to play the arrival of Wall-E is THQ (THQI), which is producing a Wall-E video game. Citigroup’s Brent Thill today says that the game could be “a source of revenue upside” for ...	June 27, 2008
Will Disney score this weekend with 'Wall-E'?	Filed under: General Electric (GE), Walt Disney (DIS), FilmWalt Disney (NYSE: DIS) has an interesting weekend coming up. The new Pixar film, Wall-E, opened today. While everyone expects it to be a hit, no one knows yet how big a hit it will ultimately be. Pixar, of course, is a major brand in computer-generated cartoons. Its major competition is DreamWorks Animation (NYSE: DWA). The latter's most recent hit, Kung Fu Panda, opened earlier this summer box-office season with a $60.2 million first-...	June 27, 2008
Superfast levitating train could connect Disneyland, Las Vegas: Once we find $12 billion	Filed under: Walt Disney (DIS) File this under Only in America; the recently-passed national transportation bill includes $42 million to fund further research on a proposed Anaheim to Las Vegas (Disneyland to Casinoland) magnetic levitation high-speed rail system, designed to whisk the entertainment-starved between the two spots at speeds up to 310 mph. I can just see parents loading the kids on the Maglev and shipping them off to Disneyland (Walt Disney, NYSE:DIS) while Mom and Dad hit the ...	June 27, 2008
Will Disney's 'Camp Rock' be another 'High School Musical?'	Filed under: Television, Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA)There's good news and bad news for shareholders of Disney (NYSE: DIS). The good news, according to data published in this Hollywood Reporter article, is that the latest Disney Channel movie, Camp Rock, achieved better ratings than the first High School Musical movie. Rock attracted 8.9 million eyeballs while the first Musical brought in about 7.7 million viewers. The bad news is that Rock unfortunately couldn't match the success of the seco...	June 23, 2008
An analyst thinks Viacom can afford the loss of DreamWorks	Filed under: Time Warner (TWX), Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), News Corp'B' (NWS), FilmSteven Spielberg's DreamWorks baby is preparing to leave Viacom (NYSE: VIA). That sounds bad, doesn't it? I mean, Viacom should, in theory, be freaked out about losing the star asset. Yet, an analyst working at JP Morgan has a different take on things. According to Bloomberg, Imran Khan thinks that DreamWorks may be perceived as an expensive business asset. He pointed out that the expen...	June 21, 2008
A summer of success at the box office?	Filed under: General Electric (GE), Time Warner (TWX), Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Film, Marvel Entertainment (MVL)I love summer, not only for the weather, but also for all the movies making their way to the multiplexes. According to this article at Marketwatch, for the first six weeks of the U.S. summer box-office season, the total gross for theatrical movies hit $1.46 billion, a statistic that represents about a 5% increase year-over-year in the comparable period. You...	June 19, 2008
YouTube goes long	Filed under: Google (GOOG), Time Warner (TWX), Marketing and advertising, Walt Disney (DIS), Viacom (VIA)Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) wants to see if the attention span of its YouTube users can be stretched a bit. According to this Fortune article, YouTube seems to think that short clips might not necessarily be the backbone of long-term growth. Instead, longer videos might make the site more valuable. Why is this? Well, the article intimates that the founders of the site, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, t...	June 19, 2008
Jim Cramer’s Am I Diversified	The first caller’s stock portfolio had the following stocks: Agrium (AGU), Potash (POT), Apple (AAPL), Caterpillar (CAT) and Sohu.com (SOHU). Cramer said this portfolio has too much exposure to agriculture with POT and AGU. He said sell Agrium and pick up a healthcare or defense stock. The second caller had these stocks: JC Penney (JCP), Dow Chemical (DOW), Disney (DIS), EnerSys (ENS) and Foster Wheeler (FWLT). Cramer called this portfolio is diversified. The third caller had the following...	June 18, 2008
Disney (DIS) and the child labor laws	Filed under: Competitive strategy, Walt Disney (DIS)Disney (NYSE: DIS) needs more and more very young stars to appeal to the teenage demographic. Its ability to deliver this group to advertisers is critical to the company's success. Disney recently signed 15-year old Demi Lovato to a new record deal. According to The Wall Street Journal, "For Disney, there are few more crucial tasks than finding and developing talent that appeals to 8- to 12-year-olds." The company already has big teen sensatio...	June 17, 2008
Disney (DIS) Recruits More Prepubescent Talent	Disney (DIS) has recruited another clueless child, whose parents are undoubtedly surfeited with the idea of becoming multimillionaires, to be its next... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...	June 17, 2008

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